Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark Copy Share Image
Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions,… — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience… — William James Copy Share Image
I write with the idea that nobody will care about what I've written; I publish with the idea that nobody will care… — Lauren Grodstein Copy Share Image
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel. — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
For some it is harder to write a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic. — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The wrongs of childhood and upbringing have made a large and obsessional contribution to autobiography and the novel. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - 'Silver Bells' and 'Follow the… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My first three novels were all the subjects of intensely exciting flurries of calls from producers and even stars' production companies, and… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“There were many tomorrows to be lived through his children. He could only hope that they would face them more courageously than… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing. — Jim Crace Copy Share Image
It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
